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Reaction Summaries: Section 4

Plautus and Roman Theatre
W.S. Anderson, "Chapter 1: Plautus and the Deconstruction of Menander" in Barbarian Play: Plautus' Roman Comedy (Toronto 1993) 3-29. []
W.S. Anderson, "Chapter 2: si amicus Diphilo aut Philemoni es: Plautus' Exploitation of Other Writers and Features of the Greek Comic Tradition" in Barbarian Play: Plautus' Roman Comedy (Toronto 1993) 30-59. []
D. Bain, "Plautus vortit barbare: Plautus, Bacchides 526-61 and Menander, Dis Exapaton 102-12" in Creative Imitation and Latin Literature (Cambridge 1979) 17-34. []
R. Beacham, "Chapter 3: Early Roman Stages" in The Roman Theatre and Its Audience (Harvard 1992) 56-85. []
W. Beare, "Plautus and the Fabula Atellena," CR 44 (1930) 165-168. []
V. Castellani, "Captive Captor Freed: The National Theatre of Ancient Rome," Drama 3 (1995) 51-69. []
M. Damen, "Actors and Act-Divisions in the Greek Original of Plautus' Menaechmi," CW 82.6 (1989) 409-420. []

M. Damen, "Translating Scenes: Plautus' Adaptation of Menander's Dis Exapaton," Phoenix 46 (1992) 205-231. []

M. Damen, "Actor, Character and Role in Chrysalus' 'Trojan Aria' (Bacchides 925-978)," Text and Presentation: Journal of the Comparative Drama Conference 16 (1995) 24-31. []
S. Goldberg, "Act to Action in Plautus' Bacchides," CPh 85.3 (1990) 191-201. []
A.S. Gratwick, "'Titus Maccius Plautus'," CQ 67 (1973) 78-84. []
E.W. Handley, Menander and Plautus: A Study in Comparison (H.K. Lewis & Co., London: 1968). []
E.W. Handley, "Plautus and His Public: Some Thoughts on New Comedy in Latin," Dioniso 46 (1975) 117-131. [Nikki Baum]
E.J. Jory, "Continuity and Change in the Roman Theatre," in Studies in Honor of T.B.L. Webster, edd. J.H. Betts, J.T. Hooker and J.R. Green (Bristol 1986) I, 143-152. []
T. Moore, "Seats and Social Status in the Plautine Theatre," CJ 90 (1994) 113-23. []
N. Slater, "Chapter 7: Words, Words, Words (Pseudolus)" in Plautus in Performance: The Theatre of the Mind (Princeton 1985) 118-146. []
N. Slater, "Chapter 8: Convention and Reaction" and "Chapter 9: Playwriting as Heroism" in Plautus in Performance: The Theatre of the Mind (Princeton 1985) 147-178. []
O. Taplin, "Comedy and Iconography (Chapter 4)" and "The Transplantation of Athenian Comedy (Chapter 9)" in Comic Angels (and Other Approaches to Greek Drama through Vase-Paintings) (Oxford Clarendon 1993). []
Terence
W.S. Anderson, "Love Plots in Menander and His Roman Adapters," Ramus 13 (1984) 124-134. []
W.G. Arnott, "The End of Terence's Adelphoe: A Postscript," G&R 10 (1963) 140-144. []

M. Damen, "Reconstructing the Beginning of Menander's Adelphoi (B)," ICS 12.1 (1987) 67-84. []

M. Damen, "Structure and Symmetry in Terence's Adelphoe," ICS 15.1 (1990) 85-106. []
S.M. Goldberg, "Chapter 3: The Well-Made Play" in Understanding Terence (Princeton 1986) 61-90. []
S.M. Goldberg, "Chapter 8: The Death of Comedy" in Understanding Terence (Princeton 1986) 203-220. [Nathan Kluthe]
D. Gilula, "The First Realistic Roles in European Theatre: Terence's Prologues," QUCC 33 (1989) 95-106. []
W.R. Johnson, "Micio and the Perils of Perfection," CSCA 1 (1968) 171-186. []
C. Lord, "Aristotle, Menander and the Adelphoe of Terence," TAPA 107 (1977) 183-202. []
W. Ludwig, "The Originality of Terence and his Greek Models," GRBS 9 (1968) 169-182. []
H. Parker, "Plautus Vs. Terence: Audience and Popularity Re-Examined," AJP 117 (1996) 585-617. []
N. Slater, "Humani nil a me alienum puto: The Ethics of Terentian Performance," Syllecta Classica 10 (1999) 1-21. []

G. Williams, Tradition and Originality in Roman Poetry (Oxford Clarendon 1968), pp. 285-296. []

Seneca and Roman Tragedy
R. Beacham, "Chapter 5: Tragedy, Mime and Pantomine" in The Roman Theatre and Its Audience (Harvard 1992) 117-153. []
A.J. Boyle, "Senecan Tragedy: Twelve Propositions," Ramus 16 (1977) 78-101. []
C.D.N. Costa, Seneca (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974), esp. chpt. 4, "The Tragedies." []
H. Flower, "Fabulae Praetextae in Context: When Were Plays on Contemporary Subjects Performed in Republican Rome?" CQ 45 (1995) 170-190. []
S.M. Goldberg, "The Fall and Rise of Roman Tragedy," TAPA 126 (1996) 265-86. [Chris Gardner]

H.D. Jocelyn, "Introduction" in The Tragedies of Ennius (Cambridge 1967), 3-63. []

T.D. Kohn, "Seneca's Use of Four Speaking Actors," CJ 100 (2005) 163-175. [Aubrey Campbell]
A.L. Motto, Seneca, "Tragedies of Blood," Chapter 4 (Twayne, New York: 1973). []
N.T. Pratt, Seneca's Drama, "Philosophical Drama," Chapter 4 (University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill: 1983). []
W.J. Slater, "Pantomime Riots," CA 13 (1994) 120-144. [John Belliston]
M. Wistrand, "Violence and Entertainment in Seneca the Younger," Eranos 88 (1990) 31-46. []

 


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